Thank you for Void Ark – Dev appreciation

[AzraelX]

I love the lore, design, fights, and just find Void Ark to be a lot of fun. Thank you devs! I love how we get two pieces of loot per boss. I love the cut scenes with Diablos. I know it’s a “catch up patch” ( which I think catch up should be with replaced horizontal progression) , but glad you guys didn’t skip on the quality of content with this 24 man raid. Could we get a 24 man roulette, please?
Anyways , thanks for Void Ark, keep up the great work and look forward to where we will be going to next.

[WellFooled]

I like the void ark well enough. I appreciate that it's lore is dealing with a civilization other than the Allagan Empire (I'm tired of hearing about those guys!), but the gear and boss design I felt was a step back from The World of Darkness. Cuchulainn being the exception. Still, I'm interested to see where the story goes from here.

[abzoluut]

Always nice to see an appreciation thread. I like the 24-man series too although I must say its difficulty gets toned down every new dungeon so it seems which in my opinion makes me sad. That's the mindset when maming this content: it has to be casual friendly and it seems like that equates to 1st time in 1st clear unfortunately..

Just out of curiosity, how do you find 25-mans horizontal progressive especially when the timing of implementation is questionable?

[AzraelX]

Always nice to see an appreciation thread. I like the 24-man series too although I must say its difficulty gets toned down every new dungeon so it seems which in my opinion makes me sad. That's the mindset when maming this content: it has to be casual friendly and it seems like that equates to 1st time in 1st clear unfortunately..

Just out of curiosity, how do you find 25-mans horizontal progressive especially when the timing of implementation is questionable?

im saying that 24-mans should be horizontally progressive going forward not just catch up.

well i looked at ppl's comments about how easy Void ARk was.........I felt it was easier as a Tank, as a DPS not so much cuz more dps checks imo. Wasn't as easy as i thought cuz as we all know ppl through Df don't always like to play as a group .

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

Void ark was really good, I like the fact that the 24 mans are going to take place in diff areas this time instead of all crystal tower. I wish the mechanics were a lil more difficult though. Its basically a 24 man dungeon at this point.

[CorbinDallas]

What's funny is when entire alliances get wrecked by Cuchulainn's bile then proceed to blame the tank. You know, for losing aggro on a random targeted ability.

[Lambdafish]

Void ark was really good, I like the fact that the 24 mans are going to take place in diff areas this time instead of all crystal tower. I wish the mechanics were a lil more difficult though. Its basically a 24 man dungeon at this point.

I don't think they need to be more difficult, but I think the word you are looking for is "interesting", remember how cool fighting Cerberus was? or needing to move around and interact with things as part of the fight? (behemoth, archon, scylla etc.) I don't think that difficulty is a problem, but some of the fights (especially then 2nd boss of VA) are a little disappointing when we look at how cool they could have been. I think the devs need to step this up, especially as this round of raids doesnt have the FFIII nostalgia and hype.

Having said that, this is an appreciation thread, and that is a critique, not a critisism, I still like Void Ark, especially the lore, and can't wait for more.

[Jpec07]

Agreed! Void Ark is a hell of a lot of fun, in my opinion.

Also, props to them on making fights that are coordination checks rather than DPS checks. Chuchulainn is an excellent example of a hard fight that doesn't need a DPS check to be challenging. Very interesting and complex mechanics, and I really hope that A5-8 have more on those lines (and less of "you died for not killing it fast enough").

I will admit that having a "Savage" mode that removes some of the hand-holding mechanics would be nice (like auto-hate on tanks in given circumstances, moving parties around, etc.), but I can see why they wouldn't have time for it.

I also agree about the 24M roulette. Would very much like to see that, to get some more traffic through the 2.x instances as well.

[AzraelX]

for everyone saying its too easy or not interesting- please Remember this is the 1st 24-man in the trilogy in 3.0. Remember all how easy LAB was............ so im sure they will deliver..its only going to get better

[Alahra]

Void Ark is easily my favorite of the 24-man raids since the original CT (which is far and away still my favorite, though).